ivan
Speech parts
1. ivan - Noun
2. Ivan - Proper noun
Meaning
A male given name from Russian of English speakers.
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Иван (Iván).
A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Иван (Ivan).
(slang) A Russian.
(slang) Russians (collectively, personified).
Ivan is planning an attack on our flank.
(slang, archaic) A Soviet.
(slang, archaic) Soviets (collectively, personified).
Ivan
A male given name from Welsh of Welsh origin.
ivan (plural ivans)
Alternative form of iwan
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Examples
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
The admiral did not invite Ivan to sit, so Ivan took up a prudent sort-of parade rest and waited. Someone would tell him what was going on shortly; they always did, however little he wanted to know.
Puzzles. I hate puzzles. Ivan liked flowcharts-nice and clear and you could always tell just where you were and what you should do next, everything laid out neatly. No ambiguities. No traps. Why couldn't life be more like flowcharts?
Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman... as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing... [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.
After considerable and sometimes animated in-house discussion of the demise of Ivan...
Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair.